Tauranga's top traffic cop has had enough of inattentive drivers causing crashes on wet roads after a cluster of collisions in peak hour traffic yesterday.
Police were called to six crashes within 10 hours overnight, four of which happened within half an hour of each other in poor weather.
Western Bay of Plenty head of road policing Senior Sergeant Ian Campion said there would have been many people affected or delayed because of the crashes.
I know I sound like a broken record but people need to take extreme care out there, particularly under adverse weather conditions.
"From 5pm yesterday through to 7 o'clock this morning we had a total of six crashes. These began with a crash at 5.18pm at the intersection of No 1 Rd and Jellicoe St, Te Puke. At 5.27pm on Hewletts Rd a car and motorcyclist collided. At 5.38pm on Takitimu Drive near Elizabeth St there was a nose to tail crash and at 5.42 pm on State Highway 29 near the Taipari St off ramp another two cars were involved in a nose to tail collision," he said.